April Moore, 50, was found unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds in the parking lot of her apartment complex on Rising Glen Way in Carlsbad the night of September 19, 2025. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene after officers arrived following shots fired just before 10 p.m. Investigators say the assailant took her SUV, turning the killing into a carjacking that prompted a multi-agency response.

License plate reader alerts helped trace the stolen vehicle; Newport Beach officers located it around 1 a.m. and a pursuit moved north into Orange County, ending near El Toro Road and Avenida de la Carlota in Laguna Hills. The suspect exited the vehicle and opened fire; officers returned fire, and the man later died at a hospital. Authorities identified him as Andre Anthony Matijasevic, 31, of Rancho Santa Margarita. No officers were injured, and investigators described the violence as an isolated chain of events that began with Moore’s ambush in her parking lot.

Family and friends described Moore as a woman whose life was cut short outside her home, a detail that has deepened local grief. The homicide and carjacking investigation remains active; does anyone have information about Moore or that night in the apartment complex parking lot?